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The Papermaker's Companion: The Ultimate Guide to Making and Using Handmade Paper
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Craft your own colorful paper goods and personalized stationary. With clear, step-by-step instructions, Helen Heibert covers all aspects of the papermaking process — from growing and harvesting plants for a malleable paper pulp to embellishment techniques like dyeing, embossing, and laminating. With tips on building your own papermaking equipment, ideas for transforming junk mail into dazzlingly unique notecards, and much more, you’ll be inspired to let your creativity shine as you explore the endless possibilities of handcrafted papers.
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The Papermaker's Companion: The Ultimate Guide to Making and Using Handmade Paper
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Craft your own colorful paper goods and personalized stationary. With clear, step-by-step instructions, Helen Heibert covers all aspects of the papermaking process — from growing and harvesting plants for a malleable paper pulp to embellishment techniques like dyeing, embossing, and laminating. With tips on building your own papermaking equipment, ideas for transforming junk mail into dazzlingly unique notecards, and much more, you’ll be inspired to let your creativity shine as you explore the endless possibilities of handcrafted papers.
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The Papermaker's Companion - Helen Hiebert
PART 1
Papermaking Basics
CHAPTER 1
GETTING EQUIPPED
The basic papermaking process involves dipping a screen stretched across a frame (the mould and deckle) into a vat of pulp, lifting the screen out of the vat, and shaking it back and forth — and side to side — so that the fibers interlock and bond on top of the screen surface as the water drains through the screen. The freshly made sheet of paper is then couched (transferred) onto a surface — usually a felt — and is then pressed and dried.
Couching
(pronounced cooching) transferring a freshly made sheet of paper from the mould surface onto a felt, a sheet of nonwoven polyester interfacing, or another surface.
Felt
a woven wool fabric with a smooth, brushed surface and absorbent quality that aids in releasing a sheet of paper from the mould.
You can start making paper with simple equipment, which you can purchase or build yourself. As you become more serious about the craft, there are specialized items you might wish to acquire. I prefer to start small and build up as necessary. Following is a description of the basic equipment you will need to get started, as well as suggestions for upgrading to more sophisticated equipment.
People in this field are always inventing new equipment, adapting items from other industries, and redesigning old machines to function better. Networking is a great way to find the things you need or learn how to build them. There are several papermaking organizations, a trade magazine called Hand Papermaking, and a wealth of information to be found on the Internet, from papermaking Web sites that highlight artists’ offerings to those that show the uses of the process in the developing world to sites that feature university and art center course offerings.
PAPERMAKING PROCESSES
There are many variables in the papermaking process, and there is no single way to make a sheet of paper. From collecting the fiber to drying the finished sheets, you can alter the way in which you process your materials.
Fiber Collection Options
Forage
Purchase from store or papermaking supplier
Harvest plants
Gather recycled materials
Precook Preparation Options
Steam, strip, and scrape bast fiber
Ret or decorticate tough leaf fiber
Presoak all plant fiber
Cooking Options
Cook plant fiber in soda ash, wood ash, washing soda, or lye
Cook rags in soda ash to get rid of additives or to speed up beating process
Beating Options
Hand-beat with mallets
Stamp
Blend
Process with a paint mixer, Whiz Mixer, hydropulper, or Hollander beater
Sheet Forming Options
Western
Eastern
Deckle box
Variations
Pressing Options
Sponge, rolling pin, or brayer
C-clamps and plywood boards
Recycled press (flower press, cider press, book press, etc.)
Hydraulic press
Drying Options
Air dry
Board or wall dry
Exchange dry
Restraint dry
ARRANGING YOUR SPACE
Since papermaking involves several steps, you will want to design your work space to provide a smooth flow from one step to the next. You will need space for storing dry papers and fibers, a place to cook if you use plant fibers, and a space for beating the pulp, then making, pressing, and drying the sheets. Each of these processes requires various pieces of equipment and space. Here are some things to consider when arranging your space:
Fiber
cells that impart elasticity, flexibility, and tensile strength to plants.
WET AND DRY WORK
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